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Cover based shooter sounds kind of odd for an Avengers title given the heroes in question as well, but it is what their strength is.

Lead Level Designer
Redwood City, CA, United States

Position Summary:

Crystal Dynamics is looking for an outstanding Lead Level Designer to join our design team to develop fun and unique online experiences. The Lead Level Designer will primarily focus on level development. A successful Lead Level Designer will be a hands-on individual contributor with a strong understanding of everything from the fundamentals of game balance and tuning to the social implications of shared gameplay. They will have experience leading other developers to build engaging various game modes and campaigns.

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Concept, design and implement fun and engaging game levels from the ground up.Guide, mentor, and lead the design and development of cutting-edge online experiences.

Join now to be part of our incredibly talented Design team working on the "Avengers Project" in our Redwood City studio, just south of San Francisco. Benefits for this full-time position include competitive salary, health insurance options to suit all lifestyles, generous paid time-off, as well as other studio and corporate perks, such as a free gym and discounts on games and goodies.

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Lead Combat Designer, Crystal Dynamics is on the hunt for an experienced Combat Systems Designer. This Designer will be responsible for working with the Lead Designer, Lead Combat designer and Game Directors to plan, prototype and build combat systems that directly apply to a 3rd person cover based action adventure game.

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Interesting, i wonder if it be anything like that cancelled first person multiplayer Marvel game that I don't remember much about, aside from a PowerPoint presentation and some gameplay clips floating around.

Couldn't tell you if it was an Avengers title, sorry I don't know much about comics.

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Hmm... Okay, so maybe this is more like Battlefront, where most players will play random soldiers/agents from each faction (Shield/Hydra), and every once in a while a player is picked to play actually important characters.

It could also be a new Avengers team trying to reassemble the old crew. I'd imagine that the team would be not unlike the new team on Avengers Assemble (Captain Marvel & Black Panther as co-leaders, Ant-Man, Wasp, Ms. Marvel, & Vision).

I would totally be down for an Agents of SHIELD game. Give me that playable Quake, Ghost Rider and Yo-Yo. And Mac with his shotgun axe. Oh and Coulson with his shield. Make it play like the inFamous games only with multiple protagonists like GTA 5. Fuck it, while we are at inFamous comparisons might as well put Lincoln in the game too.

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The trailer made it sound like you would be making your own hero, but having gameplay around cover-based combat sounds like the only abilities you get are based on "has a gun", which would be really bad.

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Now the game based on a Marvel comic they should be making is Strikeforce Morituri, a comic set in an alternate universe where an army of scavenger aliens attacks earth to take our tech and kill us off and the only hope are soldiers given powers at random through a procedure with a high mortality rate (which will kill them in a year if they do survive) and deadly training. That's the only Marvel thing I can think of that could work as a 3rd person shooter.

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A Marvel/DC game done as Overwatch can't really work. Overwatch works because the heroes aren't really superheroes in the standard comic book sense (more of a saturday morning cartoon).

All OW characters main ability boils down to having a gun to shoot people with, which wouldn't really work with Superman, the Hulk, Spider-Man, or numerous others. Hell, they tried do a Batman team-based shooter with Gotham City Imposters, and the only way they could justify it is that the cast is made up of crazy fans of Batman and the Joker who dress up like them and get into zany shootouts.

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A Marvel/DC game done as Overwatch can't really work. Overwatch works because the heroes aren't really superheroes in the standard comic book sense (more of a saturday morning cartoon).

All OW characters main ability boils down to having a gun to shoot people with, which wouldn't really work with Superman, the Hulk, Spider-Man, or numerous others. Hell, they tried do a Batman team-based shooter with Gotham City Imposters, and the only way they could justify it is that the cast is made up of crazy fans of Batman and the Joker who dress up like them and get into zany shootouts.

I think this would obviously be a limitation in design, but don't you think they could resolve, or at least skirt around this issue somehow? Obviously it like couldn't be class-based like Overwatch, as adapting Marvel Heroes to the Tank/DPS/Healer trifecta just wouldn't work. But as a 3rd-person hero Arena shooter?

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The only way I could see this being both the worst case scenario for game mechanics and that would actually turn out awesome would be if they took Tomb Raider and reskinned it to make a Black Widow game.

Forced online and GAAS can fuck right off though. GAAS exists solely to exploit an excessive amount of money out of people, and adds nothing to a product to improve it. It's the most blatant example of toxic capitalism the industry has ever come up with, taking all the evils of microtransactions, forced online, content removal to sell back to you later, having no respect for your free time and gambling mechanics, a cynical Skinner box all wrapped up in a bow and served up to an audience that's all too often grateful to be blatantly taking advantage of.

I'm also not in the least bit surprised it's CD that's apparently making these decisions, if the worst comes to pass. They've got incredibly talented developers working for them, but the people in charge have proven time and again that they'll chase any trend going if they think it'll make money, and that they have fuck all respect for any property they're given, or any desire to put what's best for their audience above their own selfishness.

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I mean, as has been said in this thread, that is what inFamous is. If they are using inFamous 1 and 2 as inspiration for their game then I would say that they are going to make something truly special. InFamous 2 in particular let you play however the hell you wanted, even hand to hand if that is what your heart desired.

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A 3rd person Avengers/Justice League game where one player could be one Avenger and other players different ones while you kick Kree/Skrull/Chitauri ass was always something I dreamed about
Seems like it's coming true
EDIT: It would make sense that human-based characters like Hawkeye would have to get into cover to fight, while Iron Man or Vision would just fly around wrecking shit, like many others have stated in this thread